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Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NEH- Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants: June 28, 2012
NSF-Archaeology-Senior Research: July 1, 2012
USDA- Farm to School Grant Program: June 15, 2012
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities/USAID: May 31, 2012
NSF- Dear Colleague Letter: Career Life Balance (CLB) Initiative
Foundations
Toyota Foundation: May 18, 2012
RKG Foundation: Rolling
Federal
Funding Source: NEH
Title: Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants
Program: The Preservation and Access Education and Training program is central to NEH’s efforts to preserve and establish access to cultural heritage collections. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture collections, electronic records, and digital objects. The challenge of preserving and making accessible such large and diverse holdings is enormous and the need for knowledgeable staff is significant and ongoing. Preservation and Access Education and Training grants support national or regional (multistate) education and training programs. Grants aim to help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants also support educational programs that prepare the next generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
Deadline: June 28, 2012
Link: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-education-and-training
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Archaeology-Senior Research
Program: The Archaeology Program provides support for anthropologically relevant archaeological research at both a "senior" and doctoral dissertation level. It also funds anthropologically significant archaeometric research and high-risk exploratory research proposals.
Deadline: July 1, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11690&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: USDA
Title: Farm to School Grant Program
Program: The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) amended Section 18 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to establish a Farm to School program in order to assist eligible entities, through grants and technical assistance, in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools. The USDA Food & Nutrition Service (FNS) is charged with implementing the farm to school program. In this first funding cycle, FNS anticipates awarding up to $3.5 million in grant funding to support efforts that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.
Deadline: June 15, 2012
Link: http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/F2S/f2_grant_program.htm
Funding Source: Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities/USAID
Title: Borlaug Agricultural R&D Program
Program: The BHEARD program aims to:
Develop the human and institutional capacity of Feed the Future focus countries based on strategic analysis of institutional and national capability to address the global initiative’s goals of agriculture-led growth and reduction of hunger.
Create strong and supportive linkages between the scientific and higher education communities in Feed the Future focus countries and in the U.S. in order to achieve the global initiative’s goals.
Encourage and identify innovative and effective mechanisms for human and institutional capacity development through focused monitoring, evaluation and analysis.
Create an efficient implementing entity through which USAID Missions and Bureaus can easily conduct capacity building activities with low transaction costs.
The selected institution or consortium will conduct an open competition to award sub-grants to institutions for the components of the capacity development program developed. They also will conduct an in-country strategic planning process that will further refine the design and nature of the capacity development program it proposes in its application. Plans that involve minority-serving institutions are encouraged.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
Link: https://www.aplu.org/page.aspx?pid=2314&srctid=1&erid=1184108
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Dear Colleague Letter: Career Life Balance (CLB) Initiative
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12065/nsf12065.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Foundations
Funding Source: Toyota Foundation
Title: Research Grant Program
Program: Based on the theme of “Exploring Knowledge to Build a Better Future,” the program provides support to researches uncavering new relations between people, nature, and culture, and aspiring to an enriched society in which people sustain each other. In particular, the program targets research projects with important social significance that adopt a pioneering stance based on flexible ideas that are not limited by existing frameworks.
Deadline: May 18, 2012
Link: http://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/02program/e_kenkyu.html
Funding Source: RKG Foundation
Title: Grant Program: Education, Community and Health/Medicine
Program: The Foundation's primary interests within Education include programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education.
Within Community, the Foundation supports a broad range of human services, community improvement, abuse prevention, and youth development programs. Human service programs of particular interest to the Foundation include children and family services, early childhood development, and parenting education. The Foundation supports a variety of Community Improvement programs including those that enhance non-profit management and promote philanthropy and voluntarism. Youth development programs supported by the Foundation typically include after-school educational enrichment programs that supplement and enhance formal education systems to increase the chances for successful outcomes in school and life. The Foundation is also interested in programs that attract female and minority students into the fields of mathematics, science, and technology.
The Foundation's current interests in the area of Health/Medicine include programs that promote the health and well-being of children, programs that promote access to health services, and Foundation-initiated programs focusing on ALS.
Deadline: Rolling
Link: http://www.rgkfoundation.org/public/guidelines
